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Towards a theory of informal disruption R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Tom Neuhauser, Yuliya Snihur
What are the implications of disruption originating in firms using illegal practices, which we refer to as informal firms? Since its development by Clayton Christensen, there has been increasing interest in disruptive innovation theory among innovation and management scholars. Yet, the disruptive power of informal firms remains understudied. We theorize informal disruption, which we define as the process
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Environmental scanning, resource orchestration, and disruptive innovation R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Shumo Jin, Juanru Wang, Peiyu Zhu
Environmental scanning is an important way for firms to realize disruptive innovation. However, how environmental scanning impacts disruptive innovation is still unclear. Based on resource orchestration theory and foresight theory, this study divides environmental scanning into prospective scanning and responsive scanning according to scanning time, explores the relationship between two types of environmental
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The role of innovative work behavior and organizational support for business model innovation R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Marianne Hock‐Doepgen, Jana Sophia Montasser, Sascha Klein, Thomas Clauss, Adnan Maalaoui
While innovative work behavior sets the stage for organizational innovativeness, little is known about how innovative work behavior is related to business model innovation. This study analyzes how employees' innovative work behavior leads to business model innovation. Following the organizational support theory, we further examine that business model innovation is a function of individual innovative
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Innovation Management. By Janvan denEnde. 2021, London: Macmillan Education Limited. ISBN 978‐1‐352‐01242‐2, £40.49. pp. 256. R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Irina Saur‐Amaral
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Workforce Ecosystems: Reaching Strategic Goals, Partners and Technologies. Elizabeth J.Altman, DavidKiron, JeffSchwartz, and RobinJones. The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, London, UK, 2023, ISBN 9780262047777, hardcover, pp. 244, e‐pub available. R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Peter R. A. Oeij
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How production cooperatives operating a sharing economy business model innovate in rural places R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Matthias Fink, Daniela Maresch, Richard Lang, Ralph Richter, Georgios Chatzichristos
In this study, we investigate how production Cooperatives with a Sharing Economy Business Model (CSE‐BMs) foster innovations in structurally weak rural places. Taking a place‐based social capital perspective, we argue that the strength of CSE‐BMs in developing process, service, product, and social innovation lies in their ability to reconfigure shared resources across communities and actors located
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Management of patented ‘circular innovation’ in view of the circular economy R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Jesús Valero‐Gil, Sabina Scarpellini
This study mainly aims to analyse whether innovation related to the circular economy's principles, defined as ‘circular innovation’, is closely linked to environmental disclosure and contributes to the generation of improvements in environmental performance. The article also aims to test whether waste patents, as a specific indicator of circular innovation, are more valuable assets that need specific
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Limits of open innovation during the organizational change: a case study of a Partner Campus R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Khuram Shahzad, Sorin Dan, Faisal Imran, Philipp Holtkamp, Mari K. Niemi, Martin Meyer
The literature on open innovation (OI) has mainly been focused on the ‘bright side’ of OI, thus neglecting the limits of OI implementation influencing innovation processes during organizational change. It requires to develop a better understanding about the limits of OI. Therefore, this study explores the limits of OI during organizational change and provides approaches that drive firms to offset these
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R&D investments in emerging market firms: the role of institutional investors and board interlocks R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Saneesh Edacherian, Vidya Sukumara Panicker, Amon Chizema
Despite the increase in institutional investor shareholdings in emerging market firms, their impact on R&D investments has received scant attention in the literature. By integrating agency and resource dependence perspectives, we examine the role of different types of institutional investors and their interactions with board interlocks in shaping their preference for R&D investment in their portfolio
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Effects of prior knowledge and collaborations on R&D performance in times of urgency: the case of COVID‐19 vaccine development R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Daniel Laufs, Tetyana Melnychuk, Carsten Schultz
Innovation usually requires time‐consuming exploratory approaches. However, external shocks and related crises, such as the COVID‐19 pandemic, lead to severe time pressures, which require short‐term R&D results. We investigate how organizations' prior collaboration and existing knowledge not only helped them cope with the crisis but also affected the vaccine's development performance. Specifically
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Management and marketing innovations: the role of management practices, international learning, and impacts on innovation performance R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Ozlem Ozen, Ebru Ozturk-Kose
This paper investigates the role of management practices and international learning in management and marketing innovations. Additionally, it examines whether these innovations have impact on innovation performance. Based on data drawn from the World Bank Enterprise Survey for Turkish firms, the results of the empirical analyses indicate that while management practices and international learning from
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Navigating through learning tensions at the front end: How firms can motivate paradoxical thinking when screening the creativity of ideas R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Tobias Röth, Sven Heidenreich, Fiona Schweitzer, Patrick Spieth
Idea screening is crucial as it must select the most promising ideas that are best suited to increase front-end success. Although paradox theory indicates that learning tensions characterize the evaluation and screening of idea creativity, we know little about how idea screeners navigate through the associated competing demands. In response, we investigate the effects of idea screeners' paradoxical
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Learning design thinking well: organizing (introductory) workshops for optimal participant experience R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Dirk J. Primus, Stephan Sonnenburg
A better understanding of the implementation of design thinking (DT) as a means to increase the assimilation of its practices is an important concern for R&D and innovation managers because more frequent use of DT practices raises organizational innovative capabilities. Introducing DT practices in workshops is a common, but also challenging approach to learning DT. Participants often have little to
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From depth and breadth of knowledge to technological capability: a journey inside a firm's intellectual capital R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Ali Esfandyarpour, Mohammad Reza Arasti, Mohammad Saleh Farazi, Iman Miremadi
In the current knowledge-intensive economy, a firm's intellectual capital refers to its idiosyncratic internal and external knowledge-related assets. While technological knowledge is a major constituent of intellectual capital, past research has often equated it with technological capability. However, technological capability includes not only codified knowledge, but also tacit know-how that is not
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Emerging economy firm technological catch-up through a dual innovation ecosystem framework R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2024-01-06 Joshua B. Sears, Muhammad A. Muhammad
Research has identified two principal mechanisms for emerging economy (EE) firms to technologically catch up with advanced economy (AE) firms: absorbing knowledge spillovers from AE subsidiaries and internationalizing R&D into AEs. Prior technological catch-up research has assumed EE firms are merely trailing their AE counterparts on the technological frontier when in fact the research on the bottom
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Ambidexterity within a multinational context: how organisations can leverage explorative and exploitative reverse innovation R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Linus Roth, Simone Corsi, Mathew Hughes
Organisational ambidexterity allows firms to maintain a competitive advantage. In today's globally competitive environment, characterised by dispersed knowledge and diversified markets, ambidexterity assumes an even more important connotation from a geographic perspective. In this context, emerging economies (EEs) play a vital role as sources of innovators and market disruptors. This has resulted in
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The impact of Republican CEO ideology and political alignment on R&D spending and business performance R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Chiquan Guo, Md Noman Hossain, Mark J. Kroll, Ahmed Elnahas, Brandon Ater
Based on a sample of firms in the S&P 1500 index covering the years 1993 to 2016, we find that firms with Republican CEOs spend less on R&D compared to their Democratic counterparts. However, Republican CEOs ratchet up their R&D spending when a Republican is in the Oval Office. Furthermore, we find that R&D spending is negatively related to return on assets (ROA), which is indicative of the risky nature
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Places and spaces of collaborative R&D and innovation: navigating the role of physical and virtual contexts R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Seppo Leminen, Katharina De Vita, Mika Westerlund, Paavo Ritala
The context in which collaborative R&D and innovation activities take place is a critical driver of success and failure. However, innovation management research tends to often abstract the context away, leaving the crucial contingency factors unaddressed. This special issue explores multifaceted collaborative R&D and innovation contexts across physical and virtual domains. An array of ten articles
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The microfoundations of mission-led interdisciplinary collaborations: The role of design principles R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Rafaela Costa Camoes Rabello, Katharina Ruckstuhl, Paul Woodfield, Olga Kokshagina, Susan Sandretto
Mission-oriented (MO) research aims to address social, economic and policy goals through an agreed and evidence-based set of ‘missions’. Vital to achieving a mission are bottom-up and cross-organisational interdisciplinary collaborations. However, these collaborations are often time and resource intensive. Paying attention to microfoundation behaviours can elucidate the individual capabilities required
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Orchestrating orphan ideas in the fuzzy front end of a large firm's R&D department R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Patrick Cohendet, Olivier Dupouët, Raouf Naggar, Romain Rampa
The fuzzy front end is the critical initial step of an innovation process during which new ideas emerge. This step's functioning is well understood when the ideas produced are in line with the organisation's directions or roadmap. In that case, there are a variety of managerial methods available to guide, filter and control the development of ideas while reducing the associated risks. However, we know
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Toward a sustainable sharing economy with business model innovations in the clothing industry R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Nina Tura, Minttu Laukkanen
The sharing economy provides an interesting playground in which to innovate business models with the aim of creating sustainable value. Despite the growing interest in the topic, the relationship between sharing economy business models and sustainability is still largely unknown. In this study, the focus is on examining how to increase the utilization of unused or underutilized assets through business
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Technological sensing and response capabilities as drivers for radical innovation in the context of apocalyptic uncertainty R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Garima Malik, Piyush Sharma, Russel Kingshott, Tak Yan Leung, Dianoush Abdolrazagh
This paper introduces a new conceptual model to examine the impact of technological opportunism (technology sensing and response capabilities) on the adoption of incremental and radical technological innovation by small and medium enterprises (SMEs). We tested our hypotheses with data from 228 Indian SMEs using a symmetric method of partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and the
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Digitalization and employment in Europe: the role of firm's size and the complementarity of R&D R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Jesús García-Romanos, Ester Martínez-Ros
The empirical research finds a contingent, slightly positive net effect on the relationship between digitalization and employment, resulting from the automation and reinstatement of jobs, the two countervailing forces revealed by the theoretical literature. We dig down at the features of this relationship, using two waves of Innobarometer surveys to capture the innovation investments of a sample of
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Agile R&D units' organisation and its relationship with innovation performance R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Andre Meier, Alexander Kock
Firms increasingly apply agile approaches in their development processes, and therefore researchers started investigating how agility affects innovation performance. However, previous research on agility often only considers software development or approaches the concept only from an outcome perspective (i.e. increased adaptability to changes) instead of from a capability perspective (i.e. how to organise
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The role of knowledge boundary resources for platform ecosystems – insights and design implications from SAP's Business Technology Platform R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Martin Kauschinger, Maximilian Schreieck, Helmut Krcmar
Platform ecosystems shift the locus of innovation from internal departments to third-party developers, leading to knowledge boundaries between the platform owner and these external developers. Whereas traditional knowledge management approaches focus on intra-organizational knowledge sharing, platform owners have to adopt an inter-organizational approach to integrate knowledge across firm boundaries
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Cultural distance and the permanence of acquired CEOs in cross-border high-tech acquisitions: combining the acquirer's and CEO's perspectives R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Keivan Aghasi, Massimo G. Colombo, Lucia Piscitello, Cristina Rossi Lamastra
The cultural distance between the acquiring and acquired firms is a double-edged sword in cross-border high-tech acquisitions. It magnifies the ‘combination potential’ of the acquisition but also poses severe integration challenges. Scholars have highlighted that the retention of acquired CEOs in combined entities is an effective integration action to address these challenges but have generally considered
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Knowledge-brokering activities as enactors of innovative constructive deviance in open R&D projects R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Sana Larif, Moez Essid, Sylvaine Castellano, Insaf Khelladi
Despite the two sides of deviant behaviors and the fact that knowledge brokers are sometimes presented in a negative light due to their unique position, this article unveils from an innovation perspective how these two intricate individual-level concepts bring positive outcomes in complex environments. While previous work has highlighted the positive impact of constructive workplace deviance on organizations
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The dynamics of new sharing economy ventures strategies and ecosystem legitimacy: the case of Airbnb R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Zahra Kashanizadeh, Saeed Khanagha, Andreas Alexiou, Henk Volberda
While new ventures strive to align with prevailing demand and expectations to gain and maintain legitimacy and successfully overcome the liability of newness, sharing economy ventures face additional legitimacy pressure before and after they achieve scale. Based on an inductive single case study approach, using the example of Airbnb Inc., this study investigates how digital platform-based ventures
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Science-based innovation via university spin-offs: the influence of intangible assets R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Andrew Park, Elicia Maine, Riccardo Fini, Einar Rasmussen, Alberto Di Minin, Lawrence Dooley, Letizia Mortara, Sarah Lubik, Yuan (Joseph) Zhou
University spin-offs (USOs) have attracted significant attention from scholars and policymakers as an important mechanism for science-based innovation. The debate on how USOs generate innovation outcomes has often focused on tangible assets, while the role of intangible assets has been less explored and remains loosely defined. Yet emerging research suggests that intangible assets, especially in the
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Bright and dark sides of adopting a platform-based sharing economy business model R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Sheshadri Chatterjee, Ranjan Chaudhuri, Demetris Vrontis, Raj Mahto
The sharing economy is primarily a socio-economic concept that is built upon organizations sharing resources between each other. It includes sharing a single platform by multiple organizations. These organizations can be rivals competing in the same marketplace. Often, organizations can share their employees, data, and other resources. Although there are multiple benefits in a platform-based sharing
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How top management team social status impacts innovation R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Ali Radfard, Luca Pistilli, Alessia Paccagnini
Scholars have investigated the effect that top management team (TMT) status has on several organizational dimensions, including strategic decision, risk propensity, and, ultimately, performance. However, the existing literature is relatively silent on the effect of TMT status on innovation. Our scope is to cover that research gap. Grounding our reasoning on two different yet intertwined literature
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How sustainable is the sharing business model? Toward a conceptual framework R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Per Carlborg, Hannah Snyder, Lars Witell
The sharing economy, which is considered a better way of utilizing existing resources, is associated with positive effects not only on the financial aspects of sustainability but also on its environmental and social dimensions. But is this true? Previous research has typically discussed either the positive or negative aspects of the sharing business model in specific contexts. This study adopts a dual
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Fostering digital literacy among small and micro-enterprises: digital transformation as an open and guided innovation process R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Nunzia Coco, Cinzia Colapinto, Vladi Finotto
This study examines how micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) can overcome resistance to digitalization through open innovation and design thinking techniques. By analyzing data from 74 Italian MSMEs participating in an Industry 4.0 adoption policy initiative, the research explores strategies to increase the adoption of new technologies. Using an action-research analytical approach of 9 months
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Toolkits for innovation: how digital technologies empower users in new product development R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Thomas Schäper, J. Nils Foege, Stephan Nüesch
In recent decades, toolkits for innovation have been increasingly used to integrate users into new product development processes. They promise to empower users in these processes by providing design freedom and iterative learning for the transformation of ideas into products. Despite these potential benefits, little is known about how these often digital toolkits compare to traditional design methods
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Opportunity recognition in academic spin-offs: a contingency approach R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Carmen Camelo-Ordaz, Juan Pablo Diánez-González, Noelia Franco-Leal, Elena Sousa-Ginel
This paper analyses the factors that influence opportunity recognition (OR) of academic spin-offs (ASOs) from a contingency perspective. We focus on factors linked to the academic entrepreneur and propose that their relevance for explaining OR in ASOs depends on the context in which these firms operate: discovery (the necessary information for entrepreneurs to assess the new opportunities is available
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The role of status diversity in the innovative performance of R&D teams R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Zhiqiang Liu, Muammer Ozer, Kong Zhou
Past research on team diversity has used diversity attributes that are primarily related to team members' either social (e.g., age, ethnicity, and gender) or information-processing (e.g., educational and functional background) characteristics. In this paper, we focus on status diversity, which is a relatively understudied but highly-prevalent diversity attribute. However, team status diversity can
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Disrupt through digital: a study on the challenges faced when digitalizing R&D R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Ali El Samra, Andrew James, Khaleel Malik
Digitalization and automation represent potential sources of disruption to the organization and practice of research and development (R&D). Digitalization has the potential to revolutionize future R&D, as digitalized R&D may improve efficiency and minimize risk thus reducing cycle and development times. However, companies expect organizational challenges in their R&D organization when they start to
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Thematic evolution, emerging trends for sharing economy business model research, and future research directions in the post-COVID-19 era R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Carson Duan
This study explored the scientometrics and current dynamics of the area of sharing economy business models (SEBMs). Using bibliometric analysis, it examined a collection of 561 studies from the Web of Science and Scopus databases to detect the thematic evolution, strategy map, and emerging trends in SEBM literature as well as to forecast research directions. The results showed that SEBMs is a relatively
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The role of entrepreneurial ecosystems in technological and social challenges R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 João J. M. Ferreira, Evangelos Grigoroudis, Elias G. Carayannis, Lawrence Dooley
Although there is a common consensus about what an entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) is, the question of how EE dynamics interact with technology and social change remains unclear. In this introductory article to our Special Issue on the role of EE in technological and social challenges, we systematically review the corpus of literature in this field of research. Leveraging bibliometric techniques, we
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Correction to ‘Ecosystem effectuation: creating new value through open innovation during a pandemic’ R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-06-21
Radziwon, A., Bogers, M.L., Chesbrough, H., and Minssen, T. (2022) Ecosystem effectuation: creating new value through open innovation during a pandemic. R&D Management, 52, 2, 376–390. In the Acknowledgment section, while acknowledging the funding, we missed a statement ‘This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie
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Find your match! How emerging economy firms combine different forms of openness to innovate R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Ebru Ozturk-Kose, Michael Mayer, Christian Stadler
This study investigates how combining different forms of formal collaboration (i.e., developed vs. emerging economy collaborations) and informal search (i.e., search breadth vs. depth) affects the innovation performance of emerging economy firms. The open innovation literature has primarily focused on the effect of individual open innovation practices, generating conflicting results. We argue that
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Creative ambivalence: implementing need-solution pairs in household 3D printing R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 George Kuk
Household sector innovators often create solutions to address their own personal needs, but while need-solution pairs can have important functions in creativity and design, the solutions that are initially devised as part of a working prototype are likely to be imperfect. This presents an adoption-related puzzle that revolves around how an imperfect solution created to meet a unique personal need can
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Similar-to-me effects in the grant application process: Applicants, panellists, and the likelihood of obtaining funds R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Albert Banal-Estañol, Qianshuo Liu, Inés Macho-Stadler, David Pérez-Castrillo
We analyse if and how the characteristics of grant research panels affect the applicants' likelihood of obtaining funding and, especially, if particular types of panels favour particular types of applicants. We use the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) award decisions to test the similar-to-me hypothesis for the first time in the grant context. Our main results indicate
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Boosting radical innovativeness through start-up acquisitions: the role of decision autonomy and structural integration R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Andrea Greven, Denise Fischer-Kreer, David Bendig, Stefan Pöhler, Malte Brettel
Since start-ups often own cutting-edge technology and knowledge, acquiring a start-up can provide buyers with a unique opportunity to boost their radical innovativeness. As a result, start-up acquisitions have increasingly gained importance. Acquirers, however, face difficult decisions on target autonomy and integration, which often constitute a dilemma. We analyzed survey data from 118 M&A and integration
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50+ years of R&D Management: a retrospective synthesis and new research trajectories R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Giulio Ferrigno, Antonio Crupi, Alberto Di Minin, Paavo Ritala
In 2020, R&D Management celebrated 50 years of publication. The present study honors that milestone by conducting a retrospective examination of the research conducted in the journal over time and reflects on its rich history to look forward in the R&D management field. Using bibliometric techniques, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the journal's most prominent topics and themes, as well as its
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Design thinking and dynamic managerial capabilities: a quasi-experimental field study in the aviation industry R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Kristiana Roth, Christiane Rau, Anne-Katrin Neyer
Recent academic literature has suggested that design thinking training has a positive impact on dynamic managerial capabilities that are vital for firm performance. However, it is yet not clear how these effects are realized. We suggest that the positive impact of design thinking training on dynamic managerial capabilities can be attributed to changes in two aspects of managerial cognition: creative
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Assessing the impact of stakeholder pressure and green data analytics on firm's environmental performance – understanding the role of green knowledge management and green technological innovativeness R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Saumyaranjan Sahoo
This research investigates the direct and indirect effects of stakeholder pressure, green data analytics, green knowledge management, green technological innovativeness, and the environmental performance of Indian manufacturers. Data were acquired from 569 manufacturers in India using a survey questionnaire. The study's hypotheses were examined through partial least square structural equation modeling
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The role of makerspaces in innovation processes: an exploratory study R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 David Zakoth, Oliver Mauroner, Jutta Emes
Makerspaces democratize technology access and therefore improve the chances for innovation and entrepreneurship. Nevertheless, we know little about how innovation happens in collaborative innovation spaces like makerspaces. To unleash the full potential of makerspaces, it is essential to understand what resources and environments support innovation for makerspace users. Against this background, this
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Crowdsourcing in patent examination: overcoming patent examiners' local search bias R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Hannes W. Lampe
This article investigates how crowdsourcing for knowledge creation in a crucial knowledge-intense task – patent application examination – informs decision-making. It is hypothesized that patent examiners' views underly a local search bias (i.e., they rely on locally preferred and conveniently available local information), which may be overcome through crowdsourcing. To analyze this potential effect
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The role of cross-sector partnerships in the dynamics between places and innovation ecosystems R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Tulin Dzhengiz, Samuli Patala
The dynamics between places and innovation ecosystems and the role that cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) can play in regenerating places and in revitalizing innovation ecosystems remain poorly theorized. In this study we use two cases – Humber (UK) and Southwest Finland – to develop a conceptual model that demonstrates the vicious and virtuous dynamics between places and innovation ecosystems. We show
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The interplay between the contextual conditions and the advancement of the technological maturity in inter-organisational collaborative R&D projects: a qualitative study R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Svetlana Klessova, Sebastian Engell, Catherine Thomas
This paper analyses the evolution of the contextual conditions during the advancement of the degree of technological maturity of innovative technical solutions and their interplay with the R&D processes in the setting of collaborative inter-organisational publicly-funded R&D projects. Extant literature investigated the role of contextual conditions for the development process of technologies across
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Virtual collaborative spaces: a case study on the antecedents of collaboration in an open-source software community R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Guido Conaldi, Riccardo De Vita, Stefano Ghinoi, Dawn Marie Foster
Collaboration enables the sharing amongst individuals of resources and knowledge required to innovate. In recent years, this phenomenon has increasingly manifested in virtual collaborative spaces such as open-source software communities because of the advancement in the use of online technologies and the heightened need for distance work. However, it is still unclear which underlying mechanisms foster
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Grand challenges, corporate legitimacy, and community integration: an integrative smart technology model R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Rama Krishna Reddy Kummitha
By referring to the smart city industry, this research studies how commercial firms gain legitimacy when their products aim to address grand challenges. Despite the reputation of giant technology companies and the overall legitimacy they enjoy in technology markets, exploiting opportunities in social contexts connected to grand challenges requires a societal-oriented approach. Firms that engaged in
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How does information technology capabilities affect business sustainability? The roles of ambidextrous innovation and data-driven culture R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Voon-Hsien Lee, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Garry Wei-Han Tan, Keng-Boon Ooi, Lai-Wan Wong
This research investigates explicitly how Information technology capability (ITC) can be tailored to achieve business sustainability via ambidextrous innovation in a turbulent environment. Moreover, the moderating factor of a data-driven culture (DDC) is also being investigated. The research model was built on the theoretical foundations of the resource-based view (RBV), dynamic capabilities view and
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It's all about opportunities: sourcing and selection of new ventures to accelerate innovation R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Denis Bettenmann
One-fifth of the global companies complement their R&D activities with the use of corporate accelerators. Corporate accelerators are claimed to foster innovativeness by engaging with startups. However, we know little about how they work. The few previous studies about corporate accelerators have mainly focused on the design of corporate accelerators or the description of the phenomenon itself, but
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Adaptability among inbound tour operators in a disrupted business environment R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Alex Yang-chan Hsu, Brian King, Dan Wang
The acceleration of technological innovations is reshaping service industries, including the travel business. As competitive forces intensify, inbound tour operators face the challenge of adapting to both revolutionary technologies and business model innovations as they develop destination product offerings ushering a smarter tourism ecosystem. This paper explores how inbound tour operating businesses
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The role of top management meetings in enhancing product innovation and performance R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Viktor Prokop, Petr Hajek
Top management meetings enable the positive flow of knowledge and building of key relationships within the company and its suppliers. This study draws on open innovation and upper echelons theories to analyze the effects of top management meetings on open innovation instruments, product innovation and sales performance. We use partial least squares structural equation modeling and fuzzy-set qualitative
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Exploring the dynamics of openness and formal appropriability and its impact on innovation performance in start-ups R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Elena M. Gimenez-Fernandez, Ioana Stefan, Karin Beukel, Francesco Sandulli
A tension between openness and formal appropriability (FA) emerges in start-ups as they require both in order to attract investors or innovation partners, yet their limited resources are a challenge in this pursuit. This paper sheds light on this tension through the study of the dynamics of openness and formal appropriability over time and the impact of combining openness and formal appropriability
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A generative design of collaborative innovation space R D Manag. (IF 5.962) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Marie Klooker, Katharina Hölzle
A workplace for collaboration can be a powerful tool for fostering collaborative innovation in an organization. However, many organizations have failed in realizing the benefits of collaborative innovation workplaces. Applying a sociomaterial lens to an empirical investigation of the creation and genesis of workplaces for collaborative innovation in six organizations, we expand the focus beyond identifying